Plate 109 . 
VARIETIES 0E SINGLE PETUNIA. 
Petunia nyctaginifiora , vars. 
TV hile the great advance in double Petunias (which with 
their large and singularly striking flowers cannot fail to please) 
has led to the introduction of some lovely varieties, the race of 
single flowers is evidently making great efforts not to be thrown 
into the shade altogether; and the very beautiful ones which 
we now figure will show, we think, that the characters they are 
now assuming are such as to enable them to retain their hold 
in the estimation of all lovers of flowers. 
All the varieties of Petunia, both single and double, make 
pleasing pot-plants for the decoration of the greenhouse after 
the Pelargoniums have gone out of bloom, and they may be 
grown to almost any size, some specimens which we have seen 
at the exhibitions this season being quite as large as many of 
the largest specimen greenhouse plants, which form so promi¬ 
nent a feature at our shows. One variety, so m evil at similar to 
Flower of the Pay , called Madame Ferguson , was exhibited at 
the Royal Horticultural Society, and was not less than seven ' 
feet in height, and although the blooms are somewhat evanes¬ 
cent, yet they are produced in such quantities as not to cause 
this to be any serious defect. 
The two varieties now figured were raised by Mr. Holland, 
gardener to R. W. Peake, Esq., Spring Grove, Isleworth (the 
raiser of the seedling Auricula, Southern Star , figured in our 
last number), and from him have passed into the hands of Mr. 
B. S. Williams, of the Paradise Nursery, Seven Sisters Road, 
Holloway, by whom they will be distributed to the public. 
Fig. 1, llosa belieforme , is a flower of very fine shape and good 
substance, larger and stouter than any in its class; the colour 
a bright magenta (as it is now called), with a very clear white 
